Brainstorming for our Complete Draft
List as many examples from your book as you can…
- where criminals are made to suffer for the crimes that they have committed, or
- where criminals are made to suffer unjustly or inappropriately, or
- where criminals are not made to suffer for their crimes, or
- where some part of the justice system (police, courts, District Attorneys, etc.) was motivated by the desire to punish.
List as many examples from your book as you can…
- where people who have committed crimes are given help and support so that they don't commit similar crimes again, or
- where they are given such help, but commit the same crimes again anyway, or,
- where they are not given such help at all, or
- where some part of the justice system was motivated by the desire to help criminals reform.
List as many examples from your book as you can…
- where someone avoids committing a crime because they know the consequences will be serious, or
- where someone knows the consequences will be serious, but commits the crime anyway, or
- where some part of the justice system treats someone harshly to "send a message."
List as many examples from your book as you can…
- where someone who has committed a crime is given a chance to make amends with their victim, or
- where they are shown how that crime affects others, or
- where they are given the chance to give back to the community to reduce their sentence, or
- where some part of the justice system was motivated by the desire to repair the community.
Let's get in our groups. Talk to each other for a minute about the examples you came up with.
- Which set of questions did you have the most examples of?
- Did you find more cases where the purposes of justice were being served, or where they weren't?
- Share the examples you thought of within your group.
Claims and Support
A review
A claim is
- a statement
- which takes a position on an issue
- which the audience is not likely to accept as true.
More simply, a claim is something you need to convince your audience of.
For your Complete Draft of Writing Project 3, your claim should answer the following question:
What does your Book Club Book have to say about how the purposes of justice are (or are not) being fulfilled in the United States criminal justice system?
Support includes statements
- which the audience is likely to accept as true, and
- which is used to demonstrate the truth of a particular claim.